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...Dallas, from all appearances, had been bent on getting Stoney Burns for years. His real name is Brent Stein, but under his nom de plume he was the publisher of an underground paper, Dallas Notes. In the late '60s his weekly hassled civic leaders. The authorities reciprocated in kind. First police busted Burns on obscenity charges because of some earthy expletives in the paper. A jury acquitted him. Next, a disturbance at a 1970 rock concert led to charges of inciting resistance to police officers. A jury convicted, but an appeals court reversed. Then the cops got serious. They...
After a week of shuttling between an American businessman's home near the golf course of St.-Nom-la-Bretêche and a Communist-occupied villa at Gifsur-Yvette, Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger last week summed up his talks with Hanoi's Le Due Tho in two words: "Significant progress." He declined to disclose details, but it was known that his main effort had been to work out a strict schedule of adherence to the Viet Nam ceasefire. (One major problem: the North Vietnamese demand for the release of all political prisoners in the South...
...begun bleakly enough, with none of the smiles and handshakes that had characterized the autumn meetings. No one greeted Kissinger when he arrived at the Communist villa in exurban Gif-sur-Yvette on the first morning, and he had to open the door himself. Next day at St.-Nom-La-Brêteche, the Americans received the North Vietnamese with similar coolness. By midweek, however, a measure of outward courtesy had returned. On Saturday morning, for the first time in the talks, Kissinger sent for an American-embassy photographer to take pictures at a closed session-a move that...
Sage Reminder. What sort of names? In 1967 the French Council of State set out some guidelines intended to help Frenchmen decide if they had a nom ridicule-a ridiculous, insulting or otherwise unappealing surname-that they could legally change. In the field of animals, from which a number of French surnames are taken, a Monsieur Duck, Cow, Camel, Ass or Snipe would be allowed to change his name, but a Monsieur Ox, Bull, Goat, Nightingale or Leopard would not. Nouns such as tripe, cheese, cemetery and cuckold, and adjectives like hideous and ugly were frowned on as surnames...
...name is Gordon Mills, but it might as well be Midas. In the mid-1960s he transformed a pigtailed Welsh rock belter, Tommy Scott, into the tuxedoed dandy whom the international pop world now knows as Tom Jones (the nom de chanson capitalized on the then-popular movie). Two years later Mills took a nondescript provincial singer, Gerry Dorsey, whimsically tagged him with the name of a 19th century German composer and made Engelbert Humperdinck almost as big a nightclub, TV and recording star as Jones. The musical empire that Mills has built largely on the careers of those...